“Honey isn’t one of these frail wraiths who sip tea and shuffle in worn slippers. Honey subsists on Viognier and Valium and slips on Louboutins just to run to the grocery store.…a feisty heroine readers will embrace as an octogenarian with attitude to spare.” — Booklist Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer’s Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past. As a rebellious teenager, Honey managed to escape her father’s circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles. Now in her twilight years, she decides to return home and unexpectedly falls in love. But in her family, nothing has changed. When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy, and her Lexus gets jacked, it’s hard to keep minding her own business. As old cruelties begin to resurface, Honey is no longer sure what she really wants—to forgive or to avenge. This electrifying literary breakout from PEN USA Award-winning author Victor Lodato is a masterful and deeply moving portrait of love in all its forms, of moral ambiguity, and of inspiring change—a story of female rage that asks the question: What are the limits of compassion in a world gone mad? "Lodato exhibits a gift for excitement in his stimulating tale" - Publishers Weekly “Step aside, Olive Kitteridge. There’s a new woman in town who’s difficult but loveable, complex and, in this case, fabulous. It’s Honey Fasinga.” - NPR "Ask a Bookseller" (Sheila Burns, Bloomsbury Books) "[A] propulsive readable novel...[with] an irresistible heroine, luminous, defiant and unforgettable in her complexity.....Lodato’s keen eye for detail complements an exuberant narrative that moves with energy, creating the portrait of a woman who repudiates victimhood." - Arizona Daily Star "Honey Fasinga - glamorous, saucy, and full of life, has, at “eighty plus a dash of salt,” returned home to New Jersey and all the memories that still live there.  In Victor Lodato’s wise and witty novel, Honey, we spend time with one of recent literature’s most memorable characters as she readjusts to a world she never thought she'd see again. A portrait of a woman at the end of her life, Honey  is also the most surprising, and most soul-stirring, coming of age." - Lauren Grodstein, New York Times bestselling author of We Must Not Think of Ourselves "An entertaining, Sopranos -esque mix . . . this tough/tender saga of homecoming exudes warmth and brio.” - Kirkus Reviews “Honey isn’t one of these frail wraiths who sip tea and shuffle in worn slippers. Honey subsists on Viognier and Valium and slips on Louboutins just to run to the grocery store.…a feisty heroine readers will embrace as an octogenarian with attitude to spare.” - Booklist "Lodato has written a stunning novel that begs for readers." - Library Journal (starred review) “Step aside, Olive Kitteridge. There’s a new woman in town who’s difficult but lovable, complex and, in this case, fabulous. It’s Honey Fasinga.” - NPR, “Ask a Bookseller” (Sheila Burns, Bloomsbury Books) “Step aside, Olive Kitteridge. There’s a new woman in town who’s difficult but loveable, complex and, in this case, fabulous. It’s Honey Fasinga.” - Minnesota Public Radio's "Ask a Bookseller" A Library Journal "Best Literary Fiction of the Year" * A Washington Post "Noteworthy Book" * A Ladue News "Top Beach Read to Bring on your Summer Vacation" * "Victor Lodato may be our bard of the sadness, humor, and confusion of loss. He senses the absurdities and elation of mourning and childhood with a capacious precision that brings to mind J.D. Salinger, Lorrie Moore, Karen Russell, even James Joyce.  Edgar and Lucy  will make you feel things you haven't felt in ages."  - Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West "Every woman is free to invent her own apocalypse,” says Honey Fasinga, the stylish heroine of Victor Lodato’s new novel. Honey knows where the bodies are buried—she helped bury some of them—and at eighty-two she is still figuring out how to defend herself and those she loves against the dangerous bullies of this world. This novel is a wonder of strange kindnesses, unthinkable cruelties, and familial fracture. A sharply funny, searingly wise story about the way that a life lived on its own terms is the ultimate art form. Irrepressible and romantic, empathetic but refreshingly unsentimental, and ultimately unforgettable—like its heroine, Honey is a true original" - Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist and NYT Bestselling author of Once Upon A River "Ilaria 'Honey' Fasinga is free-spirited, fashion-conscious, vain, and wounded; through her story of returning to the hometown she fled as a teenager, Lodato deftly explores such themes as the value and cost of